Canton of Gensungen
Kingdom of Westphalia | |
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Canton of Gensungen | |
department | Department of the Fulda |
District | District of Kassel |
surface | ... square miles |
Residents | 3,457 |
Villages and hamlets | 16 |
Cities | 0 |
The canton of Gensungen was an administrative unit in the Kassel district of the Fulda department in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia . The main town of the canton and seat of the justice of the peace was the town of Gensungen , today part of Felsberg in the Schwalm-Eder district . The canton comprised 16 villages and hamlets and was inhabited by 3,457 people.
The municipalities belonging to the canton were:
- Gensungen, with Mittelhof and Charterhouse and brickworks
- Altenbrunslar
- Beuern and Sundhof
- Ellenberg , with Breitenau
- Harle
- Hesserode , with Helmshausen
- Hesslar
- Hilgershausen
- Melgershausen
- Mosheim
- Rhünda
- Unshausen
Notes and individual references
- ↑ The two cantons of Melsungen and Gensungen had a combined area of 2.09 square miles .
- ↑ "Royal Decree, whereby the division of the kingdom into eight departments is ordered" . "Directory of the departments, districts, cantons and communes of the kingdom". In: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Hrsg.): Project Westphalian history . S. 203 ( PDF 4.9MB [accessed April 26, 2009]).
- ↑ Friedrich Justin Bertuch (ed.): General geographical ephemeris . With charts and copper. Volume six and thirtieth. Publishers of the Landes-Industrie-Comtoir, Weimar 1911, p. 29 ( PDF 19.2MB [accessed on May 14, 2011]).